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The Two-Soul'd Animal : Early Modern Literatures of the Classical and Christian Souls.
The Two-Soul'd Animal illuminates an early modern debate that recognized the troubling extent to which Christian thought had defined the human in terms of two incompatible models of soul. As the sixteenth century progressed, Christian and humanist thinkers began to realize that these two souls...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Northwestern University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Two-Soul'd Animal; Chapter 1. The Two Souls as a Problem of Christian Freedom; Chapter 2. Hamlet's ""Soulbending Sovereignty"" and Shakespeare's Rhetorical Soul; Chapter 3. Sir John Davies and the Lyrical Psychology of the English Commonwealth; Chapter 4. ""Be Thou Verbum"": John Donne's Printerly Techne of the Soul; Chapter 5. From Animal to Anima: Milton's ""Living Soul"" and the Promise of Discursive Reason; Coda. ""Incompletely Human"" before Descartes; Notes; Index